The Scorpion Nationals story. The Scorpion National Championships 2017 – what a week for club and class, below is a club biased story from this one of the organizers, competitors, members. It seems a while ago now, but back when July turned into August the club hosted one of the classes that has been a permanent feature at CCSC for many tens of years – the Scorpion – for their week long National Championships. They were returning after a 15year gap, with champs at the club before that in 1996 and 1990. Testament to the class build quality that 2 out of the 3 previous winning boats were back this year, and someone from all 3 teams was competing in 2017. As a bit of an executive summary, despite some serious breeze and added occasional rain, the week was a great success and we believe it was enjoyed by certainly most if not all the competitors, a number of whom put pen to paper to thank us, but also hopefully most of the volunteers who gave their time to mak...